A blog can be described in many different ways, as a personal diary of someones thoughts and ideas, a memo to the world or a breaking news outlet. A blog gives you a voice on the web where you can share your ideas and personal opinions about everything that is going on around you. What ever you want to say blogger can help you say it.
Services offered by Blogger
Engaging Your Friends
You can control who reads and writes on your blog, its all up to you.
Blogger Comments - These allow anyone, anywhere to give you feedback on your posts, you can choose if you allow comments on a post by post basis and you can also delete any comments you dont want on your blog.
Access Controls - These decide who can read and write on your blog. Group blogs allow families, teams, groups of friends to communicate all in one blog. Or you can have an individual private blog where you have a space to share your thoughts, share links and websites that are of interest to you, you can keep this to yourself or share it with others.
Blogger Profiles - These allow you to find people and blogs that share yours interests. You can also allow people to find your profile.
Designing Your Blog
Templates - The collection of templates offered by Blogger allows you to get started with a professional looking page without all the fuss of having to learn how to use HTML.
Custom Colours and Fonts - When you have mastered the basics of Blogger, you can move on to the next step and customise your blog to suit you. You can customise the templates, colours and designs to create a blog that is just for you.
Drag and Drop Page Elements - This tool allows you to decide exactly how you would like your blog to be set up. You can decide where you want your posts, profile, archives and other parts of your blog go on the page.
Posting Photos
Blogger allows you to share any photos you would like. You can upload photos straight from your computer to your blog using the upload photos button in the blogger interface. Or you can upload a photo that is already on the web, you just simply have to tell blogger where it is on the web. You also have the ability to send photos straight from your mobile phone to your blog.
The fastest way to understand blogging is simply to give it a go, its simple, easy and you may even enjoy it as I am discovering. The best part is, its all free.
Why use Blogger for Occupational Therapy
The internet is such a widely used tool in the world today, we have access to so many different tools and resources such as blogger. Blogger is a way that we can create a webpage that is devoted to a specific topic such as Occupational Therapy where we can post different links, photos and videos that relate to our topic of interest. We can use blogger as a resouces for many people who have an interest in Occupational Therapy, they are able to see exactly what we do, why we do it and the benefit of occupational therapy through many different posts linking in different areas of our profession.
Other Blog Hosts
Another blog host is Blogtown NZ, this is a free blogging site for Kiwis. The link to this website is: http://blogtown.co.nz/?gclid=COiyxrGqgpsCFQwxawodvT0QcQ
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